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The Freemasons, rumored to be the oldest fraternal group in the world, have remained shrouded in secrecy for centuries. Given the mystery surrounding the group, it has become the center of a multitude of conspiracy theories. We'll be getting into the history surrounding this group and we'll go in depth into its dark side. What connections can we make between the Masons and suspicious activity? Are they trying to control the human population? Are their leaders actually reptile humanoid extraterrestrial aliens? Does the Freemason Group control our taxes? What is truly going on behind closed doors?
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The Freemasons, rumored to be the oldest fraternal group in the world, have remained shrouded in secrecy for centuries. Given the mystery surrounding the group, it has become the center of a multitude of conspiracy theories. We'll be getting into the history surrounding this group and we'll go in depth into its dark side. What connections can we make between the Masons and suspicious activity? Are they trying to control the human population? Are their leaders actually reptile humanoid extraterrestrial aliens? Does the Freemason Group control our taxes? What is truly going on behind closed doors?
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Hey guys. How's it going?
What's up? Welcome back.
Hi, sorry. Sorry, I was chomping on my ice there for a second. Yeah, here we are again.
These ice lovers.
We love some ice.
Fanatics.
What have you guys been up to?
Ice, ice, baby.
Um. I had a full horizontal day yesterday. Very needed.
Well, I've seen the meme, which, were you just laying there? Now, I read that like one inactive day a week is better for your health. Yeah, 100 percent. It was needed. That was a meme.
Yeah, that was a meme. You did just send that to all of us.
So sometimes I open the things you send just to get the notifications away because it overwhelms me. And then I go back like three days later and start responding to them.
Well, we know. I knew.
I don't like the little red notification.
But I'll be like, Oh, remember that thing I sent you on Instagram? And she's like, right, which one?
Does anyone ever send you a meme and you open it and you're not thinking about who it's from and you're like, Oh my gosh, I know who would love this. And you send it right back. And then people are like, please see above.
Yeah, I've done that.
I feel like Kait and my like private DM thread is a lot of that.
Yeah. I'm like, I literally just sent that to you, Megan. She's like, oh. Right.
So we have a shout out.
Yeah, shout out's come before a drink check, right?
Yeah, who are we shouting out to?
We got a shout out. Shout out to Kerry for buying us some coffee.
Thank you, Kerry.
Thanks, Kerry.
She says, don't mind when the weekend is over, because I'm looking forward to Tuesday.
Oh, wait, that's really nice.
I mean, also, they're like, she's retired, so she probably doesn't really care that the whole weekend is over. You know, like every yeah, every day is the weekend. She's living her best life right now.
So like being rich and retired, Megan
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Drink check.
What are we drinking today, ladies?
I'm drinking a bourbon and ginger ale with lots of crushed ice.
Yeah, ice fanatic.
I'm drinking a bourbon and diet ginger ale with less crushed ice. I would like to point out that it's completely melted. There is no more left.
I have cubed ice and bubble water in a fancy glass.
Yeah, it tastes so much better in a fancy glass.
So I'm sure bourbon boys asking aloud in the car right now, what bourbon are you drinking? Bowman Small Batch.
Ooh, yes, Bowman. Bowman is a-
Sponsor us.
Please do sponsor us.
Ooh, I would love a bourbon sponsor. I know. That would actually be kind of cool.
They're local. They're just off exit 130. Ooh.
You know who likes to drink bourbon?
Oh yeah, who?
Old white men. Oh, speaking of old white men. Hi, dad.
Bourbon is a drink that like my grandpas used to like to drink. And you know what? They were some Freemasons.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah, speaking of Freemasons guys. You're related to the Freemasons?
I am.
I don't trust them.
The Freemasons, rumored to be the oldest fraternal group in the world, have remained shrouded in secrecy for centuries. Given the mystery surrounding the group, it has become the center of a multitude of conspiracy theories. We'll be getting into the history surrounding this group and we'll go in depth into its dark side. What connections can we make between the Masons and suspicious activity? Are they trying to control the human population? Are their leaders actually reptile humanoid extraterrestrial aliens? Does the Freemason Group control our taxes? What is truly going on behind closed doors?
Colleen and I teaming up on this because Colleen wants to bring us a series on all the different secret societies, right?
Like cults and societies, yeah.
So we're starting with the Freemasons.
So just to kind of blow everyone's mind, let me tell you about some of the famous Freemasons.
Oh, I can't wait.
I'm familiar with a couple names here.
So also because the Freemasons are so secretive, it's hard to get a lot of numbers about membership and like who are members. There's a lot of variation. There is for sure at least nine, but as many as 50 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Oh, wow.
That's insane.
Including Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock. We've had 15 US presidents and 18 vice presidents, 42 Supreme Court justices, five of whom were chief justices. I think I told you guys before that the first four prophets of the LDS Church were Freemasons. And then elsewhere I saw that actually the first five prophets of the LDS church were Freemasons.
Prophets?
Crazy, like the leaders.
Yeah, like the leaders.
Oh, okay.
We got Mozart, Oscar Wilde, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, Voltaire, Edgar Hoover, Isaac Newton, Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett. Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders. Paul Revere, Charles LaFont. Paul Revere.
Is Colonel Sanders the guy? The KFC guy.
Yeah, the KFC guy.
I was gonna say that, but then I was like…. It can't be.
Yeah. Michael Richards, who plays Kramer in Seinfeld.
Stop. Did you know he wore a hairpiece?
No.
Yeah. When he was a Kramer, he wore a hairpiece.
Fascinating.
A toupee?
Colleen didn't even know who like Kramer was.
Not really. I think I've watched like one episode. Oh, is he the taller one?
He's the one that walks in the door like...
Also, I wish everybody could see that.
Colleen, how did you what did you think the plot of Seinfeld was?
I thought it was about being a Jewish American.
Seinfeld is literally a show about nothing.
Okay, we're back. We had to pause for a moment so that we could get a Kramer reenactment.
So that Kait could leave the house and enter it as Kramer.
I had to show Colleen.
We now have Kramer with us in the room.
A couple other famous people. We talked about Buzz Aldrin, Stonewall Jackson, Buffalo Bill, Erwin Belk, the founder of Belk, for you Southern people, right?
I don't know what Belk is?
Okay, John Jacob Astor for when you get to Titanic.
Astor was on the Titanic.
Oh, oh yeah.
Rudyard Kipling, Houdini, Charles Lindbergh. Houdini.
Houdini?
He really threw me off when I read that.
Wait a second, Houdini?
Yeah.
Oh, he's definitely a reptile.
Charles Lindbergh, the aviation guy whose baby got kidnapped.
Oh yeah.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett. Bill Gates.
The AI guy, definitely believe that.
I heard that Rihanna was, but she must be an Eastern star then, right? Calling like that's a.
Yeah, yeah, she must be.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like the female version.
Yeah. Yeah. Jay-Z
Is Beyonce?
I didn't see Beyonce.
Oh, wait. Are all of these men?
Well, there are. Yeah. Yeah, that's Rihanna.
There is a female section. Yeah.
We’ll, briefly mention that. I have some relatives who are in that as well.
Yeah.
The first time I heard about the Freemasons was from my ex-boyfriend. And he was like, Oh yeah. Some of his grandparents were Freemasons. And I was like, what is that? And he was like, I don't really know. Like what exactly it is. And then he couldn't tell me. And that was when my interest was piqued with the Freemasons, because I was like. What is the secret organization?
Well, yeah, like my grandpa, when he died, my mom said they like found a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah, like they're white cloaks.
Well, he no, she made it very clear.
She made it very clear there was not a hood on it.
Right.
And like the aprons and stuff.
Aprons have a meaning.
Yeah.
And I kept being like, Dad, like, how did grandpa get into this?
And he like couldn't really tell me.
Right.
Yeah, I think people, you just don't talk about it.
Right. It's Fight Club, it's the most ultimate Fight Club. Or it's like Scientology before Scientology.
Yeah. I've got a couple more for you, okay? We got P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Puffy Combs, Shaquille O'Neal, Scotty Pippen, John Elway, Prince Philip, RIP.
Scotty Pippen?
Yeah. Brad Paisley.
What? I love Brad. My cowboy.
So yeah, I mean, a lot of bigwigs.
She's everything to me, Megan.
The Freemasons are the oldest and largest fraternal organization. And again, because it's so secretive, all the numbers vary. So I saw anywhere from four to eight million active members and anywhere from like 850,000 to 2 million in the US. And then in the US, there's 51 grand lodges. So there's a grand lodge in each state and one in DC. Let’s get into it. Shall we start with the origin story?
Yep.
Okay. So there are a couple different theories as far as how they came about. There's like the more accepted story and then a couple of other stories. So some believe it goes back to biblical times. Hiram, who was known as the widow’s son, he was the architect and master builder of King Solomon's temple, where the 10 commandments were supposed to be stored. So the temple design was allegedly given to Hiram via the king directly from God. And so he wouldn't share this plan with his workers because he was like, unless you know the code, the secret from God, you can't see these plans. And they got really upset. And so one night they jumped him. And when he died, he said, who will help the widow's son? And so that cry for help has like become the freemason cry for help. So like if anyone ever needs help, they say who will help the widow's son.
Oh.
And so this is one of the theories like this is the basis of Freemasonry and the lodges were all designed after King Solomon's temple I was about to say was King Solomon the first Freemason Because I see some people don't believe that Freemasons really started back here. But this is one of the theories that it started around this and they designed these lodges around King Solomon's temple and they were the ceremonial clothing based on what they were wearing then Colleen and I watched…
My favorite movie, National treasure.
National treasure, 1 and 2 today. And two back to back to prepare for this. And just say it is our citation for today. There is so much Masonic references in National Treasure and they talk about King Solomon's temple.
Yeah. There’s a lot there.
So during the Crusades, these group of knights, the Knights Templar would travel to Jerusalem to go on their holy quest and they were supposed to like kill non-Christians to help spread Christianity. The Templars started as nine French knights that traveled to the Middle East in 1118. They stayed in a mosque allegedly built on top of King Solomon's temple. They were staying in the stables when they unearthed Solomon's treasures. This gave them unprecedented wealth and respect from the church. They ended up with the unwavering support of the church. This group would go around plundering towns claiming they weren't loyal to the church and they had the unwavering protection because there was no oversight. They wanted to build opulent structures to gather in, but they were not builders, so they hired masons. On Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip of France. Friday to the 13th? This is actually the origination story of Friday the 13th. Wow. I did not know that. Yeah, so on Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip of France ordered his army to strike down every Templar, and other monarchs followed suit in what became known as the Templar Arrest. In 1312, the pope disbanded the Knights Templar, but the thought is that those who had survived hit out with the Freemasons. So again, there's a lot of rumors, but most historians believe that Freemasonry started in a medieval Europe in about the 12th century. A group of stonemasons wanted to unionize for fair wages and the ability to regulate their practice. So this is probably like the first union as we know it. And when they were working on a project, they would construct these temporary lodges to meet and planned their build and that's where they hung out. And then they would take the lodge down after they had spent years building whatever they were building. And so this all really started as again, a union. And it was kind of, I guess, select to be a Mason. And so it required a lot of training. And we'll talk about the phases you could go through. But the whole idea is that Freemasons were allowed to wander town to town to work, which not everyone was allowed to do. And so if you go into a new town and you're like, I'm a Mason, they wanted some code way to be able to like relay that to other Masons. And like, you're not just claiming to be a Mason, you were actually trained and have gone through the steps you need to go through. And so that's why they created these like secret handshakes and code words. There are three degrees of membership. So once a boy was like 10 to 12, and they decided they wanted to be a Mason, they would apprentice under a master Mason. And apparently, again, it had to be a male. You had to be strong, smart, from a good family. And then most of the people who, these boys who wanted to be masons, never actually make it through the apprenticeship. But if you earned a certain number of hours, that they would earn the official title of entered apprentice. And so that's like the basic level of the masons. And then the next step is fellow of the craft. And so these are masons who had completed sufficient training and they would be judged on their conduct and skill. And once the lodge said that, okay, you're good to be a fellow of the craft, you could start working for wages and you could vote within the lodge in this union. Okay. And then the final level is a master. And so these are fellows who could get their own contracts for buildings and then they would hire like other Freemasons to help them build. So those were like the three levels. And then we hear a lot about like the 33 degree Mason. So this is a master Mason who has exhibited knowledge, passion, and sacrifice to his craft. It's voted on by the Supreme Council. It's just again like an honor for someone who's been made a master mason. It says you've just been outstanding, you're selfless, and you've been unanimously elected as an honorary member of the Supreme Council. Then there's also all these sub types, I guess, within the Freemasonry. One of them is like the Shriners. I think that's the one that's the most popular. All the Shriners are Freemasons, but not all Freemasons are Shriners.
Oh, I know the Shriners Club.
Yeah. So it's just a charitable organization of Freemasons, people who have made it to master Masons. So they think there's about a half a million of them. These are the guys wearing the Fez hats. I think I previously was like, yeah, don't the Masons wear the Fez hats? It's really the Shriners. Shriners are. Yeah. And they're always like in the parades of like the little bikes and little cars and stuff. And yeah, the hospitals.
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
So then there's also like kind of a female offshoot that's not as big, obviously. That's the Eastern Star. And then there's a group for like children of Freemasons. Like, yeah, my friend's boyfriend, I kind of like the reaction you had. My friend's boyfriend was like, I'm a Freemason and I I was like, what is it? And he's like, we're just a fraternity. So again, I I don't know. I'm just trying to understand it, right?
Right. Like, no body will tell you more.
Well, so I think that's kind of the deal. This cloak and dagger, all the secrecy was supposed to help keep members employed and in demand. And again, it's like you could prove that you actually had the skills. You weren't just like some willy nilly guy off the street. But I think that because we've had so many cloak and dagger secrets, it makes it, yeah, like more of a mystery.
It makes it suspicious.
Yeah.
So then in the 1600s, books became more readily available. It was like easier to mass print. So people could teach themselves how to be masons.
Break into it.
Yeah, and they had math books because a lot of Freemasonry was like math. And so you didn't necessarily need to like go through all of these steps to go work.
Doesn't the symbol of Freemasonry, like the G stands for geometry or something like that, cause that's like their core.
Yeah, and it looks like, what's that tool?
The protractor. Yeah, it's like a protractor over like a... It's like all very mathy.
Colleen, do you ever think about a word that you just have not thought about in a long time. And then you start thinking about. Where do things get stored in your mind?
Yes. I like to think of it like that sort of spongebob where he like goes on the deep of his mind, it's like filing cabinets
…Your temporal lobe.
Yeah. OK. Or like, but is it? But like, if you like a thought is like, is it like Harry Potter where they pull out like a strip of light? Yeah. I mean, like it's like we store memories in our temporal lobe, but it's just tissue. But in my head, it's not tissue, it's images and words and memories. Right, so like how would I excrete that?
Hello. I haven't thought of protractor in forever. And where did I pull that out from?
So they had to shut down these lodges because there wasn't enough money to keep them open. They're like, okay, we need some cash influx. How can we do that? So they were like, you know what, you don't need to be a Freemason. Like you don't need to literally be a Mason by trade anymore. We'll just take anybody. Anybody. And so that became more of a social club in the 1700s. This is when the church was losing power and we had the age of enlightenment. And so this allowed a place for free thinking individuals discuss art and politics, but it had to be done in secret to avoid persecution from the church and state, which remained intertwined. So now we have a group of all these people who are all about secrecy and they've got a bunch of empty gathering places. So it makes sense that this would be a good place for people to meet.
Oh, yeah. It's not for the church, it's a bunch of men talking about art. Oh.
And politics, except now it says the only two things you can't talk about in the lodge are religion and politics.
Yeah. Right?
Yeah. But back in the day, they said it was like a place to talk about it.
Oh my God, Houdini?
They prided themselves on being gallant, because again, it's a social club, so they would go to a lot of plays together.
Oh my God.
Okay, but before this, remember like in the Shakespeare days, the audience would heckle the actors and scream. It was very… so the Freemasons were the first people who went to shows. And didn't do that.
Oh
So our theater etiquette as we have today is from the Freemasons. So now we're taking anybody who's like disciplined from a good family. And they have to believe in God. And only people with money could join. Well, they didn't have to believe in, they had to believe in a being.
Yes, yeah. So they didn't have to be Christian necessarily.
So atheists can't join.
Correct.
That's like in there.
Yeah. But again, you can't talk about religion in the lodge. You have to have some kind of belief system, but don't dare bring it up, bitch.
Yeah.
There were lodges in each town and they had elected officials. They were all self-governing. And then there was a larger grand lodge that would oversee them.
In each state?
Well, there's no states yet.
We forgot about this.
So we're in different towns. So there's lodges in different towns with elected officials and they were self-governing. And then there would be a larger grand lodge that would kind of oversee them. So kind of sounds like early democracy. Does it not?
Oh, yeah.
So in 1731, Benjamin Franklin at the age of 25, I believe became one of the first American Freemasons. He joined a Freemason Lodge in Philadelphia.
Shout out, Philly.
But here's what I, here was what I found interesting about the kind of Freemasons background. If there were no Freemasons, we would not, I believe we would not be a country.
Yeah, cause so many founding fathers. They were all Freemasons.
And so yeah, they were saying like the British Tea Party, for example, okay, we were trying to decide if we're going to go to war with England. And they say, you know what? It's going to be all or nothing like everybody has to be on board to go to war or we're not going to war. So the Boston tea party was really the thing that caused everyone to get angry and go to war.
Right.
The Boston tea party, all the people in the Boston tea party, Freemasons was planned by the Freemasons of the Green Dragon Lodge in Boston. Uh, and it was like the green dragon pub in the back of, of this pub, there was like a Freemason lodge spaces where they met. And so that's where they plan this.
Again, the Freemasons were the people on the boat dumping the tea. The Green Dragon pub still exists by the way. Oh, field trip. But we should definitely go there. Yeah. You know, the Boston Tea Party precipitating all of this support for war.
Right.
Thanks to the Freemasons, really. It wouldn't have happened without that. And then, you remember the one if by land, two if by sea?
Yep.
The deal was Robert Newman and John Paul Jr., they were both Masons. They are the people that actually ran up the old North Church tower and hung the lanterns. And then we know that Paul Revere.
The red coats are coming.
He didn't actually say that, right?
He said. Well, actually the whole Paul Revere story is very-
It's very not what you think it is.
Exaggerated because it was written in a book. You should know you're the local, but it was written in a book and he had like a good name for the rhyme, right? The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. And so he kind of gets all this credit, but it wasn't-
There was like, it wasn't really a one man show. Like, you know, he just, he just ran a leg of it. And also he didn't even make it to where you're supposed to go.
Well, and he got captured.
Yeah.
So Paul Revere, it was capture site. So Paul Revere was a Freemason and he's doing his ride and these British patrolers stop him and an officer puts a pistol to his head. He gets questioned. He's eventually released. This is like a kind of fact. We're all taught in school, but no one really knows why he got released. And one of the theories online is that we know Paul Revere was a Freemason. What if the British captor was also a Freemason? They exchanged the secret handshake, the secret code words. And that's why he got let go.
And that's like a part of I'm going to get into this too, but like a part of their core beliefs is that you always protect another Mason, like no matter what.
So we win the war. And then George Washington, who again we know is a Freemason.
Mr. G.W. He's the boss now. He hires L’enfant, another Freemason, to design Washington, DC. He wanted this to be this geometrically perfect city. And so George Washington actually laid the cornerstone, let's jump in ahead, but he did the cornerstone ceremony when they were building the Capitol. With the apron or something. He wore the apron. He wore the apron for it.
He did like the actual, there's like with olive oil. There's like a... like a ceremony they do a ritual and ceremony that I think believe before that was completely private. And then as like a sense of pride for like masonry and like for DC as a whole, he did part took in the ceremony publicly.
o, yeah, a lot of free masonry, like at the start of our country. So Washington does this Masonic ceremony for the capital cornerstone. He wears his Masonic apron and he's got his like Mason gavel. And he does like, gives it the right, he uses corn, wine and olive oil to do this like secret ceremony. It's always emblematic of nourishment, refreshment and joy. So whatever I'll have to do. They're all like, they're all branches of what the belief system is. Interesting, there's a lot of Masonic references in DC as a whole. Yeah, like so in a lodge, it should be a long rectangle positioned east to west with a triangle at the eastern end and their compass square and Bible are always kept there and that's where the master stands. So the mall, the Washington, the DC mall is a long east to west rectangle with an unfinished triangle at its east end formed by the convergence of Pennsylvania and Maryland Avenue, this is where it used to live.
Oh, like the shape of the map.
Yeah.
Yeah. We'll post the picture of this to the Instagram.
Yeah, and where the master would stand is like where our capital is right now. Candidates for membership usually enter the room from the north, which is darkness, and then they walk to the east, which is the source of light and wisdom, because they're becoming enlightened as they do the ceremony. So in the design, where they would enter in darkness, that's the White House, and where they end up when they're illuminated is the Capitol.
Oh, it's really weird.
DC as a whole forms a diamond, which is a Masonic symbol. So the White House, the Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, and Jefferson Memorial were like the four points. And all of them were, all of them were Masons.
Then there's this whole theory about the Washington monument looking like the point circle, which is a Masonic image representing the individual and then the intersection of our passions, vices, prejudices. But then there's others that say that if you look at from the top, it looks like a G, which Colleen mentioned earlier was maybe for geometry. Yeah, it was like geometry or God. Yeah, God or geometry. Which again means any God, not just the Christian God.
Yeah. Hard to say if that was, if this was like a lot of geometry because they were into the golden ratio and what L’enfant was, but a lot of people are implying that it was all like inspired by the Freemasons. L’enfant, I also learned unrelated. He wanted Lincoln Park in DC, which is the park that was a block from my house. Mermaid Girl and I used to meet there during the pandemic. Pandemic times. Have little, you know, doggy play dates. That was supposed to be like the center of all of DC. And now it's like the small little patch of grass.
That's really interesting.
But L’enfant was too expensive and he was taking too long. He wanted everything to be perfect. And George Washington was like, we need to get DC up and running. So L’enfant gets fired, but a lot of his plans are what we see now.
How different it would have looked.
Yeah, so that's what I have for the history. I just think, I thought the history seems a lot less sketchy than I thought. It just kind of seems like, yeah, social club trying to make money and that maybe…. Again, we wouldn't even have a country as we know it without the Freemasons.
But yeah, but why? Why did they want their own country?
Reptile humanoid extraterrestrial aliens.
Well, like Colleen tells us. You think it sounds normal. I think it sounds like, why did they make a whole district in the shape of their brotherhood.
It's the capital they wanted to control.
I mean, I think it just seems like, yeah, everyone's meeting and quiet and they're planning, you know, the revolution. And it makes sense that this is a secret club where they do that. As far as what they're doing in 2023 freaks me out. I have no idea.
Yeah.
So that goes into like so I'm going to get into - I have like a couple of different stories about the Freemasons and what they have done to control us. Makes them a little bit suspicious. But my general theory for Freemasonry as a whole is that I feel like there's two aspects of it, right? I feel like it is the aspect of rich person club, rich person social club, where it gives you connections and you can feel hoity-toity, but there's this deeper layer to it where like not every member reaches, and that to me is probably where they do the freaky stuff. And like I do have a quote about that, that this lady, sorry. There's a gentleman by Mr. Hall who wrote a couple lectures about Freemasonry and he quotes it as being, "'A fraternity within a fraternity, "'an outer organization concealing "'an inner brotherhood of the elect.'" So I feel like it's like an onion of like what secrets they hide.
So apparently my grandpa Chick was like a 33 degree- er, like high up.
Yes, and so then when you think about you talking about these, elite people who must be the highest of the highest. He was just an normal dude.
Well, maybe that's like for show, like maybe he just had a lot of money. So he only got that access to the fraternity, but like the real creepy people, you know what I mean? Like there's something higher than the 33 degrees. I bet there's something higher than that.
Oh, speaking of the 33 degrees, there is a couple of different sections about how we can see like symbols of Freemasonry in real life. The Rolling Rock brand of beer had a number that was like really creepy 33 on the bottle that was supposed to be suggested to represent the 33 club, the 33 elite or whatever.
So I found one article. Now the confidence we can have in my resources for this. No, it's like some of these sources are just like crazy websites, guys. Like I'm in the deep dark web for this stuff.
Yeah, I did have a hard time too because most of the things I could find were written by Freemasons.
Yeah.
Again, if- It's a little swayed. If they are covering something up. They're not gonna give us the information. But somewhere it said like when members are first starting, like a part of the initiation is to be blindfolded and a hangman's noose was placed around your neck and they were warned that their throats could be slashed and their tongue cut out if they didn't follow the ceremony in the specific order.
What? I know.
Well, wasn't there actually like a guy who sued them for hazing?
Yes, yep. So we have a couple absolutely wild stories about like Freemasonry. So one of them, so in 1991 there was a gentleman named Michael Vaughn who actually ended up filing a lawsuit trying to just make proof that he was essentially hazed in an attempt to become a Shriner. So we've talked about Shriners being already involved with Freemasonry but... He was blindfolded and then received a jolt of electricity that was applied to his bare butt. So he got absolutely shocked. And then he was forced to walk on an electric mat that was meant to simulate the hot stands of the Sahara. And then he was knocked unconscious in which he was like beat up further. And then woke up with severe PTSD, sleep disorders, et cetera. And this was all a part of a hazing ritual. And then the jury said no? No.
So yeah, so that kind of goes into a conspiracy of how the Freemasons are controlling the country. Yeah, are the Freemasons on the jury?
Yeah. So Freemasonry, if you look up the court documentation of jury, not jury, judges and lawyers and things like that, a large portion of them are a part of the society, the Freemason society. And you protect a Mason no matter what. And so there was a court case recently about this in Scotland in which Freemasons in like the judiciary kind of ruled a court case in one way to protect a fellow Mason. And the person that this affected, the non-Mason member, then sued and brought it back to court to say people have to declare their Mason status in the judiciary system so that people can tell who have ties with who.
I feel like that's fair.
Yeah.
Yeah, and did they win? Did he win?
Yeah, and it became like a major conflict of interest. So now you have to declare. In the court, you have to declare. If you're a Mason.
Interesting, that's how I'm getting out of jury duty. Yeah, I'm a Mason, I believe in Freemasonry.
In addition to that, I found a couple different sources that stated that some of the... Like the history of income tax in the United States derived from like Masons introducing it to the society. I thought it came from Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton.
Income tax - Didn't he develop our tax system? Well, our financial system.
Yeah. Well, people believe that.
Well, but he didn't they didn't want us taxed because yeah.
Well, well now they kind of are saying that they did. Was he...
He might've been... Yeah, he's the one who proposed taxing whiskey when Daveed Diggs says, 'What's gonna happen when you try to tax our whiskey?'
Right.
And then he tried to tax the whiskey.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, so by introducing like income taxes and things like that, they're able to then control the society and keep certain members down and certain members above. And if you look at like the group of people in Freemasonry, a lot of them are financially more... I don't know, set and land. They're a bunch of rich people.
Yeah.
So that makes sense.
And it makes sense why Freemasons would be high in the government to forcefully control rules such as taxation and things like that.
Also, Hamilton was a Freemason.
So no, stop, stop.
See, they're trying to be...
So the overarching conspiracy about Freemasons is that it's an elite group trying to control the world.
I truly believe the elite members of this group are reptile humanzoid extraterrestrial aliens that were implanted hundreds of thousands of years ago to then control the human population.
Okay, that's the most out there conspiracy. I'm not going to buy into it. And you've given me no proof that it's real. T
he pictures of humans being forced, humanzoids transitioning to human bodies is like - I've seen them six times today.
I will say I can buy into there's a group trying to control people.
Yeah.
But are they aliens?
I believe in aliens guys, but I don't think they're in human bodies.
No, I agree. I'm not buying that conspiracy theory.
Also, like the people who practice medicine on these reptilian, yeah, alien bodies, could like do a scan and be like, wait a second…
Unless they, they have their own hospitals.
Yeah.
Or they have their own hospitals and own doctors.
Maybe it's in the president's book of secrets.
Didn't George Washington die early?
Right after he retired.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he wasn't an alien. T
hanks for the proof, Kait.
Yeah.
But, I mean, you do prove a point though about how no matter what, you protect your friends. You protect your brothers.
Yeah.
So I have a couple more stories of how Freemasonry control the world, right? So I talked about the court case and we talked about the hazing but in the 1800s a little bit earlier on in the beginning or not the beginning but earlier on in American history there was a man by William Morgan who actually attempted to infiltrate the Freemasons so he was able to study their rituals from afar like he was able to figure out the secret handshake. So he then pretended to be a Mason and then when he left he was a news writer and was writing articles of hinting that he was about to release all these secrets that he learned about the Freemasons and he was like building up, and building up for his big article where he was going to reveal everything when all of a sudden he gets arrested for some kind of like small kinds of fines and things like that but he gets put in jail even though it's like a small reason to be arrested and randomly from jail, he gets kidnapped, dragged through the woods and killed.
Oh my gosh. Sounds like a coverup.
Yeah, never seen again.
Like we don't want our secrets released when we take care of this.
Yeah, they definitely killed him
So I thought that was interesting. And did you know that there's also a strong conspiracy that Freemasons are hiding that the earth is flat from us?
No.
There are diehard flat earth conspiracists that have been going around burning down Freemason lodges because they feel that the Freemasons are hiding the fact that the earth is flat from them.
Like, they just think the Freemasons know this?
Yeah, and they're keeping it from us. Because they believe Freemasons are connected to NASA, which we know because Buzz Aldrin's a Freemason.
Yeah.
So they truly believe that... Freemasons know the earth is flat and they're just keeping it from us
Do you guys think the earth is flat?
No
Maybe a little, I mean…
No, I've seen that's not the old area the shadow I know that but also like rainbows
That wouldn't happen unless the earth was round.
Yeah, I just think it's funny that we have conspiracy on conspiracy… like the girls are fighting.
You know what I mean by rainbows, right?
Yeah, like that they're curved, that the light spectrum. That's why the sky looks… And dusk and dawn, why there's different colors in the sky because bouncing up the earth.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's all I really had Megan. I didn't have that much more. Oh wait, wait. No, I do have one more thing. So I have, I had a couple of sections about symbols of Freemasonry that we see in day to day life. You brought up the DC map. One article that I found against Freemason was like, said that. It's not something sneaky. It was just a way for our founding fathers to have pride in what they believe in. George Washington used the apron in that ceremony because he was very proud to be a Mason and like not the fact that he's trying to introduce his Mason beliefs to control the world.
I don't know.
Hmm. But one particular so we often associate pyramids with Freemasonry. That's in the symbol. There's a triangular shape. And people believe that. Freemasons were involved with the pyramid building and the construction of pyramids. Oh and also with the illuminati group ‘
Yeah, but she'll do an episode of illuminati
But I'm sure in National Treasure, we're all familiar with the dollar bill scene
Yes, so on our US dollar bill - there's a pyramid with a triangle on the top, and an eye and people believe that this is a symbol for illuminati and it also is a symbol for Freemasonry
So, I'm gonna prove this wrong - Actually, I found proof that it's incorrect. So the pyramid symbol with that eye is called the seeing eye and this was a part of the great seal for the US documents and it was first introduced in 1782 and this was actually before the Masons even started using pyramid as a representation. So the great seal was introduced in 1782 and this was even - The Freemasons hadn't even started using the pyramid as their symbol by then. And then it wasn't even added to the dollar till the 1930s. So there's no real correlation to pyramids and Freemasons. And it was just something that they chose to-
The great seeing eye, like Sauron, Lord of the Rings.
Right. Sauron.
I think I read it differently than that. How do you spell it?
S-A-U-R-O-N, Sauron.
Sauron?
Some people say Sauron. Maybe it was that. Maybe I recognize that. It's Sauron. Sorry. So I don't know. What do we think?
Do you guys don't know what Sauron is?
We're not. No, I'm a little bit of a nerd, but I'm not a Lord of the Rings nerd. I tried to watch him. I'm just…
Megan?
I saw them like once, but I'm…
I'm disappointed.
Kait and Bourbon Boy are very big Lord of the Rings.
Yes. We love the Lord of the Rings.
I would argue Bourbon Boy's probably a little bit bigger of a fan than you.
Oh, 100%.
Nerd alert.
I couldn't get through the movies until I met Blake and he was like, no, you have to wake up. You have to wake up.
My God.
And now I'm like into it.
I mean, I think now it is just a bunch of old retirees and they're getting together and socializing. I...
No, I'm full on board that there's an organization out there trying to control the world. Yeah. And the Freemasons are the center of it.
Yes.
Why is there so much secrecy that I mean, Megan, that was a very nice presentation of the history, but there's literally zero detail about what they actually do. Well, I think what they were arguing to in line is that like, part of the secrecy initially was was for them to be like, we are the trained masons. And later on it was like, okay, people are willing to pay a lot of money to join the secret club because they wanna learn the secrets. And so if we like make it really mysterious, more people will want to join. What if-
No. Secret was the friends we made along the way.
Right. What if there is no secret? Like they have created all this club and spent all this money and there's truly nothing they're hiding. It's just a group of boys video gaming or something like that. You know what I mean?
That would be such a letdown.
It would be.
But that's such a boy thing to do.
But that's a thing that some people aren't.
That is such a boy thing. Like a huge club. No girls allowed.
People aren't going to pay to do that. They can do that for free. But so right now it has this like mystique about it.
But no poor people, though. Rich people would pay to be away from poor people. You know what I mean?
Well, I don't know what people are paying now. I have no idea. Like my grandpa was pretty stingy with cash. So I can't believe he would be paying all this money to a boys club.
I don't know. I guess it depends on how far in your family it goes. Like was his father a Mason, was his father a Mason?
Then I think yeah, he would probably pay for it or daddy would pay for it. You know what I mean?
I don't know. I mean, I do, I think what Colleen says, I think like it could, I think it's like. A layer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The deeper you get, the more you realize and the more secrets, you know. Yeah. But like you can also be just like loosely affiliated and be on the surface of Freemason. Yeah. So I don't know.
I still am just like and it's weird. It's that DC was designed to be like a Freemason. It's so odd. Yeah. Like that's weird.
We will be vlogging a field trip. We're gonna go to the Masonic temple.
Yeah, we were gonna go today, but it was closed for a private event.
Hmm. Very interesting.
Hmm. Was it in... I don't know now if it was a documentary I watched or if it was the National Treasure. Series.
Yeah.
But in one of them, they went to like the headquarters of the Freemasons. I think that was... Yeah, they do. Yeah. And...
It was like in DC.
No, there is one in DC, I thought, though.
The Masonic temple is in Virginia.
Yeah.
And then there's like the headquarters, I think is in DC, maybe.
Well, we'll do a blogging trip on it. I don't know how much to let us film, but we'll have to go undercover for you guys.
Yeah.
Anybody got a fez hat?
Yeah. But yeah. OK. What are what's our poll for the week?
Um, yes, the Freemasons are lizard people – humanoids.
Yeah. B. the Freemasons are just a glorified fraternity.
Right.
C. the Freemasons are part of the New World Order.
Right.
Controlling the government, controlling the world.
Colleen's going to get on the on the social media today and make sure we have some polls for you guys. Oh, right.
Yeah, because we do. We do want to hear from you guys.
Yeah. Also, I think we always forget to share the poll, but we should share the results.
It's yeah. Interact with us guys. Let us know how you think of it. Yeah.
Freemasons. They're weird. Very weird.
And Megan, I think it's weird that you have so many in your family. Yeah, I think that's strange. And the serial killer. I know we might have to cover that one.
We're not joking about that, guys, by the way. That's like not a joke.
Yeah.
But alright. OK, what should they do when they finish this episode?
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